Beginning Rails: From Novice to Professional

by Cloves Carneiro Jr, Hampton Catlin, Jeffrey Hardy

Overview

This book not only teaches the necessary skill set to become a proficient Ruby on Rails developer, it also explains the theory needed for the developer to explore and learn on their own. The reader will not be burdened by yet another set of "hello world" and other mundane examples. In this text they will learn Ruby on Rails by creating real world projects; a task manager, RSS aggregator, a community manager similar to MySpace.com, and an Amazon based store. While the book covers the basics for beginners, it also offers more advanced tools, including Ajax and a detailed discussion of ActiveRecord and ActionPack.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781590596869
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	10/19/2007
Series:	Expert's Voice Series
Edition description:	1st Corrected ed., Corr. 3rd printing
Pages:	361
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.36(d)

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Table of Contents

• Introducing the Rails Framework
• Getting Started
• Getting Something Running
• Working with a Database: Active Record
• Advanced Active Record: Enhancing Your Models
• Action Pack:Working with the View and the Controller
• Improving Interaction with Ajax
• Sending and Receiving Mail
• Testing Your Application
• Extending Rails with Plugins
• Deploying Your Rails Applications

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews:

"This book on Rails, a Web application development framework based on Ruby language, is both timely and accessible to beginners. … this is an excellent book for a novice in both Web applications and the Rails framework. At the end of the book, the readers will have developed a fairly sophisticated Web application while learning about Rails." (Suma Adabala, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2008)

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